This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.